What Is the Way of the Wilderness?: An Introduction to the Wilderness Way Community

By Solveig I. Nilsen-Goodin and Rev. Solveig I Nilsen-Goodin

"Wilderness Way has poured the entire Gospel into new wineskins without losing a drop." - Rev. Alexia SalvatierraThe ecclesial landscape in North America is dotted with church plants both conventional and experimental. As worshipping communities, however, too few of these have moved beyond cosmetic changes. And as expressions of mission, not enough have engaged seriously the interlocking ecological and social crises that threaten both history and nature. We need both on-the-ground "demonstration projects" and embodied stories that help us map the future at this watershed moment. In What is the Way of the Wilderness? Wilderness Way offers us both. Pushing the frontiers of both liturgy and social witness, mission and church structure, Wilderness Way has wisdom to share and stories to tell - wisdom and stories that raise critical questions for the whole church in North America. And as we engage these questions with as much joy, passion and wild creativity as Wilderness Way, then here at the dawn of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the words of the prophet Isaiah again ring true, "I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness..."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1537593676
• ISBN13: 9781537593678
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.2" x 5.3"